Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is also mad about stereoscopic imagery. He worked with this week’s guest, Astronomy Magazine Editor-in-Chief David Eicher, to create this beautiful new book that contains 150 startling 3D images, along with clear 3D glasses. A copy of Moon Mission 3D will go to the winner of the new What’s Up space trivia contest. Also, Planetary Society Digital Editor Jason Davis introduces SpaceIL’s lunar lander, heading for the moon in 2019. Learn more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/1114-2018-eicher-moon-mission-3d.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Moon Mission 3D, this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society,
0:12.0	with more of the humid adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	Who knew?
0:18.0	Queen Guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is also one of our planet's leading practitioners of 3D imagery.
0:27.0	May and Astronomy magazine editor-in-chief David Eicher have teamed up to create a spacebook that will knock your eyes right out of your head.
0:35.0	We'll explore it in depth and you'll get a chance to win Moon Mission 3D in this week's
0:41.2	What's Up Space Trivia Contest.
0:43.8	Let's talk first with Planetary Society digital editor Jason Davis
0:48.3	about a new mission to the moon that is nearing launch,
0:51.7	a mission from Israel and a nonprofit called Space I.
0:56.2	Jason, what we have here, if it goes according to plan, would be the winner of the Google Lunar X Prize if there was still a Google Lunar
1:06.2	X Prize.
1:07.2	Yeah, I guess technically the prize still exists.
1:11.8	There's just no money behind it anymore.
1:14.3	And if you go to the Google Lunar X Prize website,
1:17.8	they're kind of saying, like, hey,
1:19.4	we're looking for a new financial sponsor
1:21.6	if anyone out there happens to be willing to put $30 million up for grab.
1:25.2	So it's all glory but no cash rewards.
1:28.2	Especially now that it looks like Space I.L is actually going to do this possibly as soon as early next year. I mean you would basically
1:36.4	Know that you're going to be giving up the money whereas Google never had to
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